Adapt recognised practice on procurement data security to local constraints without hollowing it out.
Building Data Security Strategies in Digital Procurement Systems
Turn procurement data security from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.
Course Overview
Warehouse performance on procurement data security is decided by layout and discipline long before technology. Most procurement disputes about the procurement and supply operations discipline originate in a specification written too quickly. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in this area of procurement and supply operations rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. Participants finish able to explain procurement data security to a non-specialist audience without losing precision. Across sectors, teams that rehearse the wider procurement and supply operations agenda outperform teams that only plan it. Buying a tool rarely fixes the procurement and supply operations capability; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. The course gives participants a defensible structure for procurement data security and the judgement to adapt it. It is written for people who have to make the procurement and supply operations discipline work with the resources they already have. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to this part of procurement and supply operations that would make a visible difference.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Build a supplier performance regime covering procurement data security with real consequences.
Plan the disposal or return route for obsolete and damaged stock in procurement data security.
Reduce the working capital tied up in procurement data security without creating stock-outs.
Handle the trade-offs in procurement data security between speed, cost and assurance explicitly rather than implicitly.
Establish escalation routes for procurement data security that work outside normal hours.
Write a specification for procurement data security that suppliers can price without guessing.
Who Should Attend
Contract managers administering agreements covering procurement data security.
Managers of multi-site operations seeking consistency in procurement data security.
Quality staff inspecting incoming material in procurement data security.
Warehouse and stores managers operating procurement data security.
Procurement and category managers responsible for procurement data security.
Coordinators responsible for keeping records and documentation of procurement data security current.
Course Modules
Procurement data security: supplier evaluation, award and contract terms
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The single point of failure inside procurement data security
- Anticipate the objections procurement data security will raise and prepare the answers.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about procurement data security.
- Validate claimed savings on procurement data security against actual invoiced spend.
- Assess supplier financial health for critical elements of procurement data security.
Session 2Writing a specification for procurement data security suppliers can price accurately
- Establish the boundary of procurement data security and record what sits outside it.
- Identify single points of dependency in procurement data security and reduce them.
- Define the trigger that would require procurement data security to be redesigned.
- Compare the cost of procurement data security with the cost of its absence.
Procurement data security: warehouse layout, flow and handling
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Laying out the warehouse around how procurement data security actually moves
- Confirm traceability from supplier to point of use for procurement data security.
- Identify slow-moving and obsolete stock inside procurement data security and decide its fate.
- Verify six months later that changes to procurement data security have held.
- Test the procedure for procurement data security against a realistic scenario.
Session 2The hard cases in procurement data security and how to reason about them
- Agree the indicators that will show whether procurement data security is improving.
- Set the stock count cycle for procurement data security and act on discrepancies.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to procurement data security.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around procurement data security are understood.
Procurement data security: controls, segregation and fraud prevention
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Documentation and customs treatment for procurement data security
- Check the delivery terms and customs classification applied to procurement data security.
- Segment spend on procurement data security by value and supply risk before choosing an approach.
- Record what was learned when procurement data security did not go as planned.
- Verify segregation between requisition, approval and receipt in procurement data security.
Session 2Keeping procurement data security alive after the initial push
- Write the specification for procurement data security so two suppliers would price it the same way.
- Negotiate payment terms on procurement data security without pushing suppliers into distress.
- Define measurable service levels in the contract covering procurement data security.
- Review the audit trail for the last three award decisions on procurement data security.
Procurement data security: measurement, savings validation and reporting
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Choosing the right sourcing approach for procurement data security
- Set out the decisions in procurement data security that require sign-off and by whom.
- Collect evidence on the present handling of procurement data security before proposing changes.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in procurement data security.
- Map the physical flow of procurement data security through receiving, storage and dispatch.
Session 2The paperwork for procurement data security that is actually needed
- Set the consequence for failing service levels on procurement data security, and apply it.
- Identify where judgement in procurement data security is legitimate and where it is not.
- Agree the escalation route when supply of procurement data security is disrupted.
- Calculate reorder point and safety stock for each item in procurement data security.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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